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The NSA's Windows-hacking arsenal leaked, affects Windows 2000 through 8, servers included

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Hacker group Shadow Brokers has released yet another cache of tools used by the NSA. Among them, these tools exploit vulnerabilities from Windows 2000 to Windows 8, including server variants.
Last year , hacking group Shadow Brokers leaked a series of tools used by „an elite team“ inside of the US’s National Security Agency. Since, by their own admission, the hacker group has not been paid by anyone to „shutup [sic] and going [sic] away“, they have released another cache of tools, this time targeted at Windows systems.
According to ZDNet and Hacker Fantastic on Twitter, the tools and exploits affect Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, as well as their server-side variants like Server 2000, 2003, 2008, 2008 R2 and 2012.
These exploits have been allegedly used by the NSA to target several banks and the SWIFT banking system.

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